Environmental Health and Safety Program

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations can be time consuming to correct, expensive, and bring a negative light to a company’s overall reputation. Repeat violations, or willful or knowing violations, can further compound these issues exponentially. Both agencies view repeat violations as a company’s indifference to environment and safety regulations in general and can put you in a high risk category. In fact, EPA and OSHA have a...

Over the years, the August Mack Pennsylvania office has expanded services to include compliance, environmental due diligence, site investigation, and remediation services.  Similar to the expansion of services, the client base has expanded and includes a wide variety of industrial and service industries. Numerous clients were served by the Pennsylvania office in 2012 and projects included compliance audits, MSDS database development and maintenance, litigation support, air permits, MACT...

In September 2008, August Mack’s eCAP® (Compliance Assurance Program) was formally qualified as a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) through the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7. August Mack’s eCAP® program is an Environmental Health and Safety Management System (EMS) that utilizes a team of August Mack experts to routinely and methodically assess and maintain compliance at clients’ facilities. The innovative program includes much more than just...

The August Mack Webinar Program had another successful year with over a thousand registrants. The webinars, which are free to registrants, cover a range of environmental, health and safety topics and are designed to provide education and value to our clients. Be sure to check the August Mack website for information on the upcoming 2013 webinars.

Don't forget to register for the free webinar tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. titled "EH&S Compliance Overview." This webinar will be an overview of a number of the basic environmental, health and safety (EH&S) compliance requirements for industrial and commercial facilities. Topics will be briefly reviewed and will include EH&S requirements related to air, waste, wastewater, oil storage, chemical reporting, hazard communication, personal protective equipment, hazard assessment, lockout/tagout,...

Do you have an environmental, health & safety issue that will require the assistance of an outside consulting firm? Do yourself a favor and call me at 317-916-3105. I can direct you to the correct resources to get your problem solved. And if my company cannot be of assistance, maybe I can direct you to someone who can help.

If your environmental, health and safety (EH&S) manager or compliance programs director left the company, who would take on his responsibilities? Is there anyone else in the organization who knows how to keep the company in compliance with environmental regulations? Unfortunately, many times the answer is “no”.

To learn more about this topic, read the full article here.

Register here for the free webinar on Thursday, December 13th titled "The New SEC Rule on Conflict Minerals: What Every EH&S Professional Should Know." Starting in 2013, a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule requires “covered companies” to annually report on their use and sourcing of “conflict minerals.” This new rule potentially affects thousands of companies and their suppliers. Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) professionals can use their background with similar regulations to...

Because the days when people work for one company over the course of their career are a thing of the past, managing personnel changes can be challenging. Not discounting the loss of institutional knowledge, there can be problems with compliance deficiencies if a smooth transition is not made between environmental, health and safety (EH&S) personnel. Unfortunately, there typically is no transition period and in some cases a gap of months while the position remains vacant. When this happens, what...

Register now for the free December 6th webinar titled "EH&S Compliance Overview." This webinar will be an overview of a number of the basic environmental, health and safety (EH&S) compliance requirements for industrial and commercial facilities. Topics will be briefly reviewed and will include EH&S requirements related to air, waste, wastewater, oil storage, chemical reporting, hazard communication, personal protective equipment, hazard assessment, lockout/tagout, confined space, and emergency...

The primary purpose for most of August Mack’s newsletter articles is to provide useful information related to environmental, health & safety issues. Many times this will take the form of discussing existing, new or proposed regulations. Or it could describe an approach or technology to solve an environmental or safety problem. But as I travel to and visit many of our clients, I realize that many clients have put us into a “box of services” and don’t realize the full breadth of our expertise...

In order to successfully fulfill our mission of providing expertise, innovation and commitment, we are always looking for ways to engage and inform our clients. In 2005 we started our free webinar program as a new avenue for sharing the valuable expertise of August Mack employees to the public. Over the years we have presented approximately 400 webinars to an audience of over 5,000 registrants. In fact, this fall we will be celebrating our 7th anniversary of providing educational webinars on a...

Have you recently reviewed your various environmental, health & safety plans? Many of these plans require some frequency of review. And as we all know, things change and plans can get outdated. Maybe it's even time to completely re-do your plan if it no longer is meeting the requirements or objectives. If you need outside help in confirming your EH&S plans are adequate, call Tom Anderson at 317.916.3105.

Don't forget to join us tomorrow for the free August Mack webinar. To attend, register here. In September 2008, August Mack’s eCAP® (Compliance Assurance Program) was formally qualified as a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7. The eCAP® program is an environmental (as well as health and safety) management system (EMS) that uses a team of August Mack experts to routinely and methodically assess and maintain compliance at a...

Register here for the free August Mack webinar on June 21, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. In September 2008, August Mack’s eCAP® (Compliance Assurance Program) was formally qualified as a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7. The eCAP® program is an environmental (as well as health and safety) management system (EMS) that uses a team of August Mack experts to routinely and methodically assess and maintain compliance at a client’s...

Did you know that August Mack conducts approximately four to five free webinars each month on a variety of environmental, health & safety (EH&S) topics? We also distribute a monthly newsletter with articles written by experts on important EH&S topics.

To attend one of our free webinars, visit the webinar page of the August Mack website, select the webinar topic of interest and complete the applicable registration form. Once your registration form is submitted, you will receive an e-mail with...

August Mack conducts approximately four to five free webinars each month on a variety of environmental, health & safety (EH&S) topics. All of our webinars are conducted via the Internet in real-time by a leading EH&S expert from August Mack. To attend one of our free webinars, select the webinar topic of interest on our website and complete the applicable registration form. Once your registration form is submitted, you will receive an e-mail with login information for the upcoming webinar as...

August Mack Environmental offers safety services to our clients. We can help develop your lockout/tagout program, perform a safety audit, as well as numerous other types of safety projects. But safety is also very important in many of the environmental jobs we perform for a client. Since many of our projects include environmental remediation activities, we must keep safety at the top of our mind. These projects have hazards that must be identified and a health & safety plan must be developed...

Knowing what to expect should assist in determining the current compliance status with any applicable environmental policy. This is generally accomplished by conducting a baseline compliance audit. The audit involves evaluating the various applicable environmental regulations (CAA, CWA, RCRA, SARA, CERCLA, and EPCRA) as previously mentioned. The goal of the audit is to evaluate compliance and deficiencies with respect to permitting, reporting, monitoring, record keeping, and limitations...